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<blockquote data-quote="sniffles" data-source="post: 2133743" data-attributes="member: 30035"><p>As Fusangite points out, there are some issues to take into account, but I don't think romance is a bad thing if everyone is comfortable with including it. It can provide some great roleplaying opportunities.</p><p> </p><p>In a campaign I'm involved in (which is scheduled to come to an end tomorrow night), my fiancee has been running a female PC. His character is involved in a romance with another PC (not mine), played by another male player. They have kept the romantic moments to a minimum, thus enhancing the roleplaying for everyone without taking over the game.</p><p> </p><p>In another game, my character was given an opportunity to have a romance with an NPC. I wasn't entirely comfortable with it, so I had her decline due to her religious duties. But when something awful happened to that NPC that impacted the big finale of the story, it made it more meaningful for my character and for me.</p><p> </p><p>If your game is like my third example, though, then I'd recommend avoiding romantic entanglements. A GM I play with regularly has never had a romance IRL, as far as I know. He tends to view that type of relationship as a ball-and-chain affair. So when he suddenly offered up an NPC romance for one of the players, it was mainly just a mechanism for him to mess with the characters in an annoying way. I'm surprised he doesn't have her tripping over blades of grass or getting kidnapped by bad guys every session. If your players would see the romance the way that GM does, or just look at it from the perspective of advantages it might give them in-game, then I'd suggest you avoid it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sniffles, post: 2133743, member: 30035"] As Fusangite points out, there are some issues to take into account, but I don't think romance is a bad thing if everyone is comfortable with including it. It can provide some great roleplaying opportunities. In a campaign I'm involved in (which is scheduled to come to an end tomorrow night), my fiancee has been running a female PC. His character is involved in a romance with another PC (not mine), played by another male player. They have kept the romantic moments to a minimum, thus enhancing the roleplaying for everyone without taking over the game. In another game, my character was given an opportunity to have a romance with an NPC. I wasn't entirely comfortable with it, so I had her decline due to her religious duties. But when something awful happened to that NPC that impacted the big finale of the story, it made it more meaningful for my character and for me. If your game is like my third example, though, then I'd recommend avoiding romantic entanglements. A GM I play with regularly has never had a romance IRL, as far as I know. He tends to view that type of relationship as a ball-and-chain affair. So when he suddenly offered up an NPC romance for one of the players, it was mainly just a mechanism for him to mess with the characters in an annoying way. I'm surprised he doesn't have her tripping over blades of grass or getting kidnapped by bad guys every session. If your players would see the romance the way that GM does, or just look at it from the perspective of advantages it might give them in-game, then I'd suggest you avoid it. [/QUOTE]
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